Shane O'Sullivan 9 th EVN Symposium, Bologna Date: 23 September 2008 Slide number 1 Jet Physics and Magnetic Field Jet Physics and Magnetic Field Geometry in Parsec-Scale AGN Jets Geometry in Parsec-Scale AGN Jets Shane O'Sullivan Shane O'Sullivan University College Cork University College Cork
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Shane O'Sullivan 9th EVN Symposium, Bologna Date: 23 September 2008 Slide number 1
Jet Physics and Magnetic Field Jet Physics and Magnetic Field Geometry in Parsec-Scale AGN JetsGeometry in Parsec-Scale AGN Jets
Shane O'SullivanShane O'SullivanUniversity College CorkUniversity College Cork
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Overview
Image Registration example: 1803+784
Jet Physics from core-shift measurements examples: Mrk 501 and BL Lac
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Lobanov (1998)
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Mrk 501 Jet Physics
Mrk 501: 1.6 – 2.2 – 5 – 8.4 GHz
Katarzynski et al. (2001)
m = 0.9, n = 1.8, kr = 0.86
Giroletti et al. (2004)
Bcore(8.4 GHz) = 0.15 +/- 0.04 G rcore(8.4 GHz) = 0.8 +/- 0.2 pc
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Black Hole Mass
Kardashev(1995), Lobanov (1998)
Mrk 501: MBH=1.9x109 MSun
Barth et al. (2002): Stellar velocity dispersion
MBH=(0.9 – 3.4)x109 MSun
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BL Lac: 4.6 – 5.1 – 7.9 – 8.9 – 12.9 – 15.4 GHz
Jorstad et al. (2005)
Equating B1 to it equipartition value gives N1=1300 cm-3
Bcore(15.4 GHz) = 0.28 +/- 0.02 G rcore(15.4 GHz) = 1.8 +/- 0.1 pc
BL Lac Jet Physics
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Information from Faraday Rotation
VLA Faraday rotation observations to remove integrated (foreground) RM, see Pushkarev (2001)
Important to remove in order to obtain correct sign of source RM and also if calculating properties in source rest frame RM → λ2 → (1+z)2
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Information from Faraday Rotation
Multi-frequency observations with short and long frequency spacings to uniquely constrain the RM
Rotation must be removed to obtain intrinsic polarization orientation
Evidence strongly in favour of majority of rotating material being external to synchrotron emitting material
Added bonus of line-of-sight direction of magnetic field in thermal plasma surrounding the jet
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Variation in Core RM with Frequency
Assuming power-law fall-off in ne with distance from central engine
1156+295
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Variation in Core RM with Frequency
Important constraints on the geometry of the region confining these jets
Low values of a: consistent highly collimated flow in ‘funnel’ geometry (e.g., Kosmissarov et al. 2007)
High values of a: consistent with confinement by thermal and/or ram pressure from spherical wind outflow (e.g., Bogovalov & Tsinganos 2005)
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Variation in Core RM with Frequency
Simultaneous observations jet
Change in sign of core RM in different frequency intervals
Line-of-sight magnetic field changes with distance from base of jet
VLBI “core”: obs’d radiation mostly near τ = 1 surface, which changes with freq, so different freq intervals probing different physical scales of the inner jet
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